#2431829 - 06/30/11 06:56 AM
Bigfoot, Black Panthers, Loche Ness & Chubacabre
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BamaProud
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Positively identify that it isn't something normal in the woods. and Not human.
Are you shooting?
I'm shooting.
I'm a skeptic...I gotta see one dead before I'll buy it.
Edited by BamaProud (06/30/11 07:03 AM)
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#2431836 - 06/30/11 06:59 AM
Re: Bigfoot, Black Panthers, Loche Ness & Chubacabre
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Skeptic here as well.
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#2431838 - 06/30/11 06:59 AM
Re: Bigfoot, Black Panthers, Loche Ness & Chubacabre
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I never shoot something without identifying it first.
Might just be a big hairy guy...lol
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#2431844 - 06/30/11 07:05 AM
Re: Bigfoot, Black Panthers, Loche Ness & Chubacabre
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BamaProud
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I'd shoot a Little Green Alien if I saw one too.
ET would have been a totally different movie if I was Eliot.
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#2431847 - 06/30/11 07:14 AM
Re: Bigfoot, Black Panthers, Loche Ness & Chubacabre
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You fail basic Hunter Safety. Go back to the video game version.
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#2431867 - 06/30/11 07:44 AM
Re: Bigfoot, Black Panthers, Loche Ness & Chubacabre
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Choot'em first
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#2431881 - 06/30/11 08:01 AM
Re: Bigfoot, Black Panthers, Loche Ness & Chubacabre
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Definite skeptic here!
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#2431901 - 06/30/11 08:13 AM
Re: Bigfoot, Black Panthers, Loche Ness & Chubacabre
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I never shoot something without identifying it first.
Might just be a big hairy guy...lol
If given the opportunity, I'd yell something like "if you're a man in a suit you better evolve out of it real quick or you're gonna die".
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#2431952 - 06/30/11 09:05 AM
Re: Bigfoot, Black Panthers, Loche Ness & Chubacabre
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If it were remotely man-like, it would be hard to "shoot first". Especially it it were any distance away. Too much liability
Now if it were right in front of me, teeth gnashing, threatening, and obviously a "creature", he's probably shot.
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#2431971 - 06/30/11 09:24 AM
Re: Bigfoot, Black Panthers, Loche Ness & Chubacabre
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If there is no season for it, it is a closed season. Shoot a Bigfoot, and TWRA might be paying you a visit.
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#2432088 - 06/30/11 11:34 AM
Re: Bigfoot, Black Panthers, Loche Ness & Chubacabre
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If there is no season for it, it is a closed season. Shoot a Bigfoot, and TWRA might be paying you a visit.
Ace in the hole is always you felt threatened.
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#2432095 - 06/30/11 11:40 AM
Re: Bigfoot, Black Panthers, Loche Ness & Chubacabre
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If there is no season for it, it is a closed season. Shoot a Bigfoot, and TWRA might be paying you a visit. Ace in the hole is always you felt threatened.
So, then, this begs the question:
IF you actually saw/encountered a Bigfoot, would you (attempt) to kill it to prove its existence, become famous, etc. OR, would you let a rare and strange animal walk.
I'm thinking most of us would be too stunned, confused, unsure of what we are actually seeing to try to kill it. How would you be totally sure it wasn't another hunter in a Ghilley suit? Furthermore, unless you were armed with a high power rifle, it would be ill advised to shoot unless you were immediately threatened.
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#2432116 - 06/30/11 12:02 PM
Re: Bigfoot, Black Panthers, Loche Ness & Chubacabre
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BamaProud
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If there is no season for it, it is a closed season. Shoot a Bigfoot, and TWRA might be paying you a visit. Ace in the hole is always you felt threatened. So, then, this begs the question: IF you actually saw/encountered a Bigfoot, would you (attempt) to kill it to prove its existence, become famous, etc. OR, would you let a rare and strange animal walk. I'm thinking most of us would be too stunned, confused, unsure of what we are actually seeing to try to kill it. How would you be totally sure it wasn't another hunter in a Ghilley suit? Furthermore, unless you were armed with a high power rifle, it would be ill advised to shoot unless you were immediately threatened.
That is why I put in the Original question "positively identify it as NOT human". Easy for me. i'd shoot. I want a full body Loche Ness...or any other mythical creature mount. Its rareness wouldn't bother me. H1N1 virus is a rare animal too. 
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#2432126 - 06/30/11 12:18 PM
Re: Bigfoot, Black Panthers, Loche Ness & Chubacabre
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unless threatened, no, i would not shoot. i would try to get a picture but otherwise would be thankful for the experience.
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#2432151 - 06/30/11 12:35 PM
Re: Bigfoot, Black Panthers, Loche Ness & Chubacabre
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BlackBelt
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And this is EXACTLY why I don't put on my ghillie suit until I get set up where I'm going to hunt!
Bubba calling his wife, "Hey baby, I just shot me a bigfoot! We's RICH!!! Call Jerry Springer! I was just sitting up in my tree and here he come...and he was toting a rifle and a water bottle..."
Nah, with me, Bigfoot gets a pass. I know it's just another hunter in a a ghillie suit.
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#2432183 - 06/30/11 01:10 PM
Re: Bigfoot, Black Panthers, Loche Ness & Chubacabre
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unless threatened, no, i would not shoot. i would try to get a picture but otherwise would be thankful for the experience.
I am with you, Stik. I have no interest in killing an animal just to be famous. Besides, you can't say for sure how closely related Bigfoot might be to humans. What if Mr Homo Erectus/Hominind turned out to be Homo heidelbergensis, Homo neanderthalensis, or even Homo sapien? You could be brought up on murder charges. 1st Degree.
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#2432190 - 06/30/11 01:21 PM
Re: Bigfoot, Black Panthers, Loche Ness & Chubacabre
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Self defense 
Since we are going down this road.... if it were in fact determined to be humanoid and you were going to claim self defense, you might have a difficult case. After all, you shot a unarmed "man" in the woods, did you not? Even if it directly attacked you, a broken nose does not justify a self defense shooting in TN. If you were sitting in a tree, and Bigfoot were unarmed, how is he posing a direct threat to bodily harm or injury? If you shot him at more than 20 yards, your case could get exponentially more complicated.
Silly argument, I know, but we are having it nonetheless 
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#2432313 - 06/30/11 04:05 PM
Re: Bigfoot, Black Panthers, Loche Ness & Chubacabre
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There is an outdoor writer now living near Durango, CO. he is a sane, down to earth person. He is also a traditional hunter. uxses nothing but bows he made himself. Has never entered any animal in any recordbooks and thouogh he has several that qualify, he never mentions them. He also does not drink or do any type of drugs.
A few years ago, sitting at a table near the swimming pool at a large hotel, he and I were discussing a variety of things and bigfoot came up. he got very quiet and then said, "I have seen one twice. I assume it was the same one. I saw it the second time, within 100 yards of where I saw it the first time...four days apart. Both times it was abouot 3:30 in the afternoon and I saw it quite clearly. It crossed a logging road in the mountains above my house and I saw it in full daylight for perhaps 15 seconds. I kbnow exactly what I saw and i don't give a ---- if you or anyone else belives me. I found no tracks, hair or scat and I have been all over that country. But I saw one."
That is pretty close to his exact words. I believe he saw one.
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#2432391 - 06/30/11 06:06 PM
Re: Bigfoot, Black Panthers, Loche Ness & Chubacabre
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Never seen a bigfoot.... seen a black panther in SC in the fall of 93 in a field about 30 yards in front my truck. We thought it was fake until it took off running. We had a lot of outlaws in my neck of the woods. Being a 18-19 year old kid, I didn't call DNR to report or look for tracks. It was in a disc river sand field so there was no doubt tracks... just don't know how well they would have showed up in that sand. Of course it's too late now to worry about. My guess was he/she was going into the dump to eat all the dead chickens we threw in there from the chicken houses.
You always think of things you would do different if you had a chance... one of the reasons I try to always have a camera with me now. Probably never see another one but I know for a fact what we saw that night. It stood still for probably 45-60 seconds... the main reason we thought it was fake and the only reason I got out the truck and walked towards it.
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#2432472 - 06/30/11 08:01 PM
Re: Bigfoot, Black Panthers, Loche Ness & Chubacabre
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Black Panthers.... we have them in FL...
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#2432576 - 06/30/11 09:56 PM
Re: Bigfoot, Black Panthers, Loche Ness & Chubacabre
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Rob R.
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Ive never seen any of them. We had a neighbor that lived across from our deer camp in N. McNairy county. He said he saw a big black cat sunning on a downed tree back in the swamp behind his house. Thats probly been 35 years ago.
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